Someone on my Facebook page (which I hope you will like ) sent me a document drafted by a small group in Wisconsin (the Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty [WGL]) that strongly opposes nullification — the Jeffersonian idea that the states must, according to the very logic… Read More
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Webster Tarpley Causes Bob Murphy Physical Pain
Webster Tarpley is often recommended to me as an insightful observer. I’m afraid I don’t see it. Tarpley thinks George W. Bush was a free-marketeer, that Wall Street favors free and open competition (are bailouts an example of this, then?), that national health care is… Read More
‘Government Has Our Best Interests At Heart!’ Oh, Shut Up
This is simply unbelievable. For a long time, a very wealthy friend of mine who is an extremely good money manager had been sharing his IRA portfolio, and every buy or sell action he took, with anyone who asked to be added to his email… Read More
Mike Farris Claims Ron Paul Bad on Homeschooling
Mike Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, says Ron Paul is a bad choice for homeschoolers , because he doesn’t support the legal reasoning by which homeschooling has in some cases made gains in the states. Farris endorses the use of the 14th Amendment and “substantive due process.” Kevin Gutzman , author of… Read More
The Bipartisan Path to Where We Are Now
Doing some work on a project the other day, I noticed that Geoffrey Perret’s very good book — Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America’s Future — is on sale in hardcover for a paltry $4.66, down from $27.00 at its release in 2007. From my review for The American Conservative, where I’m a… Read More
Iowa Teacher: Ron Paul Doesn’t Know Constitution
Time for another smackdown. Here’s what a teacher from Iowa writes in the Daily Iowan today (in italics), followed by my comment: Ron Paul’s “domestic agenda undermines his foreign-policy appeal.” I dealt with this let’s-keep-the-killing-and-war-propaganda-going argument yesterday . “Claiming that the Constitution does not authorize Congress to… Read More
Does that 1798 Act Make Obamacare Constitutional?
Left-liberals have been arguing that the 1798 Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, which none of them knew about until well after Obama’s health-care bill passed, makes Obama’s bill constitutional. Touching as this sudden constitutional scrupulosity may be, the 1798 act proves… Read More
Some Guy: Ron Paul Doesn’t Know the Constitution
A guy named Paul O’Rourke wrote a nasty blog post today claiming that Ron Paul doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to the Constitution. I always find it funny when conventional left-liberals like O’Rourke single out Ron Paul of all people for criticism, when (here… Read More
The Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. A U.S. president has attacked another country, so it’s time for the scam artists to pull out their fake constitutional arguments in support of our dear leader. Not all of them are doing so, to be sure – in fact,… Read More
Nullification: Answering the Objections
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. In January 2011 my book Nullification became notorious when it was linked to a bill that declared Barack Obama’s health care law unconstitutional and therefore void and of no effect in the state of Idaho. (Other states have been introducing similar bills, but Idaho grabbed… Read More